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British Columbia
The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve
Excerpt from Paradise Won: The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve by Elizabeth May It was Sunday...
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Manitoba
Internal document suggests Manitoba government wants to sell off leased provincial park cottage land: NDP
Briefing note refers to strategy to 'achieving a system' for sale of cottage lots An internal document obtained by the...
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Manitoba
Keep this carbon bogged down

No plan for peat protection Sun Gro Horticulture, privately owned by one of the richest families in Canada, will have...

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‘A huge win’: B.C. government suspends logging in endangered caribou habitat near Revelstoke
Plans to log a rare old-growth forest in critical caribou habitat are on hold following public outcry. Now...
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Media Releases
BCTS to Halt Most Logging Activity In Old‑growth Caribou Habitat In Argonaut Creek
After significant public pressure, the B.C. government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales (BCTS) have committed to...
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Ontario
Bill 229 permanently exempts logging from Ontario’s Endangered Species Act
Schedule 8 in Bill 229 puts Ontario’s biodiversity and claims to sustainable forestry at risk TORONTO (Mississaugas of...
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Manitoba
Manitoba’s failing direction for parks and trails
Conservation missteps during COVID-19 have Manitobans lost in the woods WINNIPEG (Treaty 1 Territory and Homeland of...
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British Columbia
Video: The movement to save old‑growth rainforests
While our communities work together to get through the COVID-19 pandemic, this is also a key moment for endangered and...
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Letter: Hydrogen Strategy for Canada should focus on renewable hydrogen 
As the government rolls out its national hydrogen strategy, critical decisions about Canada’s future role in the...
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National Campaigns
Video: 2020 YEAR END CAMPAIGN REPORT
This is Campaign Report video about some of the exciting projects and tactics that the Wilderness Committee carried...
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Manitoba
Video: A Vision For Manitoba Parks
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Manitoba
A Vision for Manitoba Parks

We need a vision for provincial parks in Manitoba. It’s not enough just to stop the devastation from Premier Brian...

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British Columbia
Nuchatlaht Nation calls on new BC government to honour UNDRIP commitment in historic title case
B.C. Crown lawyers continue to stall Nuchatlaht title case, arguing the Nation abandoned their territory Nuchatlaht Ha...
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Manitoba
Province embraces finest in environmental negligence
Privatizing provincial parks is short sighted Premier Brian Pallister and the Progressive Conservative Party of...
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British Columbia
New marine oil spill response base to begin construction on Vancouver Island
VICTORIA -- A future oil spill response base will soon begin construction in the Sooke area of Vancouver Island. The...

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